Notes / Commercial Description:
An assertive ale that is heavily bittered and dry-hopped providing an intensive aroma and brewed using selected English and North American barley and hops. It is named for the dramatic grade 4 Devil's Elbow rapid on the Elaho River, north of Squamish, BC, Canada.

Reviews by soughtbygod:

Pours a clear, copper color. 1/3 inch head of an off-white color. Great retention and great lacing. Smells of hops, sweet malt, and rye. Fits the style of an American IPA. Mouth feel is smooth and clean, with an average carbonation level. Tastes of hops, strong rye, slight sweet malt, and florals. Overall, great appearance, good mouth feel, and good blend.

1L swing-top bottle, this one took up a whole hell of a lot of room in my cooler (unapologetically, of course) for a communal picnic on a nice turn-of-the-seasons afternoon in a North Saskatchewan riverside park. Red bikini represent!

This beer pours (into a glass, what am I, a heathen?) a hazy medium orange brick amber colour, with a ton of puffy, foamy, rocky, and ultimately creamy off-white head, which leaves some decent chunky and sudsy webbed lace around the glass as it very slowly abates.

It smells of bready crackery caramel malt, and a large-ish, yet muddled array of spicy, citrusy, floral, and leafy hops - simple, but quite enticing at the same rate. The taste is more fairly softly bitter, and still strong pine resin, citrus rind, and perfumed soapy floral hops, all on top of a still sturdy grainy, bready, and well caramelized malt backbone. Quite dual in its nature, once again, but 'tis no shame at this level of quality.

The carbonation is on the light side, just playfully mild in its frothiness, the body a tad short of full medium weight, and more or less smooth, the heady hops' attention apparently diverted elsewhere (did I mention the red bikini?). It finishes off-dry, the biscuity caramel malt and piney, citrus, and floral hops still having it out.

An English IPA with a whole lot more in common with the West Coast Yankee style a couple hundred miles or so to the south of its brewer than I had any right to really expect. A very decent blending of old and new, one that I will not hesitate to revisit, and an awesome bottle to share whilst contravening local ordinances, and basically just bloody well enjoying ourselves, down by the river, as it were.

Litre bottle courtesy of Crushinator. A serviceable IPA in most respects, with grapefruit colour and white bubbly head, and some lace. Grapefruit flavour with medium and creamy mouthfeel, with a tad metallic. Good amount of caramel malts to lower bitterenss to the English style. Appropriate carbonation.

Picked up a $13 one-liter swing-top bottle in Monterey. I really enjoyed the Bailout Bitter (not retired) and was looking forward to this.

I like it, but it seemed a lot like it was simply a stronger version of the bitter. The fruity English spice dominated the beer up front and the hops kicked in for the finish and aftertaste with a grassy lemon rind punch. There's a smooth biscuit malt with light caramel notes in middle, making a classic English IPA.

This recently arrived in WI, I spotted a rack of these in Racine along with the brown ale and oatmeal stout. A quart of IPA...sign me up!

Glugs into a .5L mug with plenty of creamy foam. The surface has that soft meringue sheen to it, and an intricate coating of sticky lace. Murky burnt sienna orange.

Delicate grassy aroma, with some orange citrus peel in the back. Fairly understated.

Very balanced you might say, malt forward with competing citrus and tea leaf bitterness from the hops. Some multigrain bread lingers in the aftertaste with a moderate hop bitterness. This is a nicely crafted IPA, balanced and subtle. Not a hop bomb, but good for a session. It's fairly full bodied but light on the palate, especially with the dry aftertaste. The quart bottle seemed like a bit of a novelty, but it's a nice size for a sessionable IPA like this.

T-Well balanced malt profile, caramel sweetness with hints of toffee and biscuit. The hops used give it a very nice balance with the malt, not over the top, but enough to keep you wanting another glass. Grapefruit citrus and pine are the main flavours.

M-Smooth and well carbonated

D-One of the better IPA's I've had recently. With tons of interesting flavour keeps me reaching for the glass.

It pours a hazy copper/apricot colour with tons of carbonation rushing to the top. The head is substantial and foamy.

The aroma is a nice balance of flowery and citrusy hops, mixed with a solid caramel malty background.

The flavour is lightly bitter and slightly sweet as the malt character develops into some light caramel. The hops start to take over, and citrus and pine come through. It finishes on a complex, slightly sweet hoppy note.

Overall, this seems a little too intense on the hops for an English IPA. At the same time, it's hard to fault them for that, since the beer really is delicious. An interesting take, and worth seeking out.

A: bright copper
S: fresh fruit blossoms, not a lot of citrus; interesting, complex
T: hops and malt are nicely integrated; bright fresh citrus rind,
long linging finish with justbthe right amount of bitteness ties it all together. A taste that makes me want to take sip after sip to discover more.
M: rich and full
O: I really like this IPA. So well balanced and full of flavour. This level of alcohol is perfect for my taste.